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EP0060009A1
EP0060009A1 EP82200302A EP82200302A EP0060009A1 EP 0060009 A1 EP0060009 A1 EP 0060009A1 EP 82200302 A EP82200302 A EP 82200302A EP 82200302 A EP82200302 A EP 82200302A EP 0060009 A1 EP0060009 A1 EP 0060009A1
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conveyor system
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Gerardus Henricus C.M. Van Rooijen
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K39/00—Feeding or drinking appliances for poultry or other birds
    • A01K39/01—Feeding devices, e.g. chainfeeders
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G19/00—Conveyors comprising an impeller or a series of impellers carried by an endless traction element and arranged to move articles or materials over a supporting surface or underlying material, e.g. endless scraper conveyors
    • B65G19/14—Conveyors comprising an impeller or a series of impellers carried by an endless traction element and arranged to move articles or materials over a supporting surface or underlying material, e.g. endless scraper conveyors for moving bulk material in closed conduits, e.g. tubes
    • B65G19/16—Conveyors comprising an impeller or a series of impellers carried by an endless traction element and arranged to move articles or materials over a supporting surface or underlying material, e.g. endless scraper conveyors for moving bulk material in closed conduits, e.g. tubes the impellers being elements having an area substantially smaller than that of the conduit cross-section
    • B65G19/165—Conveyors comprising an impeller or a series of impellers carried by an endless traction element and arranged to move articles or materials over a supporting surface or underlying material, e.g. endless scraper conveyors for moving bulk material in closed conduits, e.g. tubes the impellers being elements having an area substantially smaller than that of the conduit cross-section the impellers being endless helical springs

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  • the invention relates to a conveyor system for material to be conveyed along a path formed by a channel system, in which there is disposed a driver element formed by an endless helical spring displaceable in the direction of conveyance by a driving wheel.
  • Conveyor systems comprising a chain or cable provided with drivers for entraining the material through the channel system are known in the art.
  • a conveyor system wherein a part of an endless helical spring runs through a tube-shaped channel the entrance of which forms an inlet for the material to be conveyed.
  • the opposite end of the tube has been adapted as a delivery station for the conveyed material.
  • the part of the endless helical spring outside the tube-shaped channel passes a driving wheel and runs to an entrance of the tube-shaped channel.
  • a feed conveyor of this kind animal feed from a silo or other reservoir can be distributed over a large number of feeding points for example, in a shed.
  • the channel system extends into a closed circuit along a driving wheel, a feeding station for the material to be conveyed and further along series of delivery stations, said driving wheel being a gear wheel which extends into the channel and meshes between the windings of an endless helical spring.
  • the construction of the endless helical spring imparts a certain resilience to the latter so that less power is required to operate the conveyor system. Further trough-shaped channel elements oan be arranged; the bottom of the channel elements has been adapted to receive said helical spring.
  • An important feature of the invention consists in that the helical spring prevents the chickens from eating out of the trough while the endless helical spring is running.
  • the channel system is a pipeline extending along a closed path, the endless helical spring being entirely enclosed in the pipeline and the gear wheel for axially moving said helical spring extending into the pipeline.
  • the consecutive identical cross-sections of said endless helical spring have been adapted to the cross-sectional shape of said channel while the wire from which the endless helical spring has been made, has a rectangular cross-section.
  • a soraper element constructed in this way is also much more resistant to wear, a scraping effect and also pushing action on the product being much better than other systems provided with drivers.
  • a drive system for the endless helical spring preferably comprises a gear wheel which has bevel teeth, the tooth angle matching the pitch angle of the helical spring.
  • the conveyor system As illutrated in fig. 1, the conveyor system according to the present invention consists of a channel system in the form of a main feed line extending over the cattle-shed area in a closed circuit.
  • the fodder for dispensing is fed to an inlet station 4 from a silo or similar reservoir 2 via a conduit 3.
  • Means in the inlet station 4 ensure that the material reaches the main feed line 1 and the fodder is conveyed to a large number of delivery stations or feed conduits 5 and/or 6 by means of a driver or scraper element 9 disposed in the conduit.
  • the feed conduits 5 are intended for continuous feeding, while the feed conduits 6 are adapted for dispensing the fodder in quantitatively controlled portions.
  • the length of the main feed line may be 30 to 150 m.
  • the main feed line may-also be disposed directly beneath the reservoir 2. Conduit 3 can then be omitted.
  • the pipeline 1 is made from plastics tubes 7 and bends 8 of a plastics material having a very high resistance to wear.
  • the radius of the bends 8 may, for example, be 50 cm.
  • the pipes 7 and bends 8 are coupled in such a manner, e.g. by means of sleeves (not shown), that there is a smooth passage inside the pipeline.
  • the driver element disposed in the pipes is a scraper 9 which continuously extends by consecutive identical cross-sections and constitutes and endless helical spring which consequently has a fixed pitch which repeatedly comes into contact with an arbitrary tangent extending in the direction of conveyance. (The driver element 9 is illustrated more clearly in fig. 3).
  • the tangent extending in the direction of conveyance is denoted by reference 10 while the pitch is denoted by the letter S.
  • the scraper 9 is enclosed as an endless spring in the pipeline 1, which is constructed as a channel system with a closed circuit, a drive means 11 being provided for axially moving the scraper 9 in the pipeline.
  • the scraper consists of windings formed with a constant pitch, corresponding to the pitch S, and is accordingly a helical spring.
  • the material used for this purpose may, for example, be a hardened spring steel wire which accordingly has successive identical cross-sections denoted by reference 12, preferably having the form of a rectangle.
  • the drive system 11 comprises a gear wheel 13 meshing with the scraper 9. the gear wheel pitch corresponding to the fixed pitch S of the scraper.
  • the gear wheel 13 extends through a slot 14 extending in the longitudinal direction of the pipe 7. Since the pitch S of the scraper 9 is relatively large, the gear wheel 13 has bevel teeth and its tooth angle matches the pitch angle of the turns of the scraper.
  • the gear wheel 13 of the drive system 11 can be driven in manner known per se at the correct speed of rotation, by means of a motor and reduction gear.
  • the gear wheel 13 may be situated in a case, the opposite walls 15 of which being provided with a connecting sleeve 16 for connecting the channel system.
  • the bottom 17 of the case has been adapted to receive the scraper 9 or helical spring, see fig. 4.
  • the filling station 4 is received in the pipeline, for example, in the form of a hopper (as shown in detail in fig. 5) and the steep edges of the windings of rectangular cross-section convey the material from this hopper through the pipeline.
  • the material will be conveyed through the entire pipeline, for example, at a speed of 10 to 25 m per minute, material also being conveyed in the interior of the scraper constructed as a helical spring. It is impossible for the material to jam against the inner wall of the pipeline 1 because the windings prevent such a jamming. Gear wheel 13 thus pushes the scraper 9 through the pipeline 1.
  • the scraper 9 constructed as a helical spring, will be somewhat compressed, directly after the gear wheel 13, but the gear wheel can also exert a pulling action on the scraper directly in front of said gear wheel.
  • a gear wheel 18 driven by the scraper 9 has been situated within the hopper 20 of the inlet station 4 or feeding station for the fodder. This gear wheel 18 prevents the fodder for bridging in the hopper and a continuous supply of the fodder is made certain.
  • the conveying system has been arranged in a cage feeder for a chicken battery 19.
  • the channel system 1 is constructed in three floors of cages and each floor formed by a channel system having a closed circuit which has been adapted as an open trough section 21; said open trough section 21 being adapted as a manger has been connected to a pipeline section 22 in each floor.
  • a gear wheel 13 has been arranged in a pipeline section 22.
  • the gear wheels are interconnected by means of a chain transmission 23 and driven by one single motor 24.
  • Fig. 7 shows that the bottom 24 of the open trough section has been adapted to the cross-sectional shape of the scraper 9.

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EP19820200302 1981-03-11 1982-03-08 Fördersystem Expired - Lifetime EP0060009B2 (de)

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IE (1) IE52810B1 (de)
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Cited By (5)

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EP0178739A2 (de) * 1984-10-16 1986-04-23 Teus Malestein Gerät zum Liefern von Futter an eine Vielzahl von Käfigen
NL2006424C2 (en) * 2011-03-18 2012-09-19 Roxell Nv A poultry trough feeding system with feeding-trough segment(s) having dry feed and fluid inlets.
EP1859237B1 (de) * 2005-03-03 2013-12-04 Cabinplant International A/S Wägeanordnung
US8729410B2 (en) 2005-03-03 2014-05-20 Cabinplant International A/S Arrangement for conveying controlled portions of a product material to a combinational weighing system consisting of a transport screw with a quick release mechanism
WO2015173170A1 (en) 2014-05-16 2015-11-19 Roxell Bvba Poultry feeding system having walls which delimit or extend through a feeding space at least partly provided with sharp-edged line-elevations

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FR802597A (fr) * 1935-05-23 1936-09-08 Rocca Ets Perfectionnements aux appareillages d'extraction par dissolvants et notamment aux appareillages utilisés dans l'industrie des matières grasses
US2232606A (en) * 1940-04-04 1941-02-18 Wilbur G Hudson Mass conveyer
GB762411A (en) * 1954-06-08 1956-11-28 John Dalglish Improvements relating to conveyors
US3003464A (en) * 1958-08-04 1961-10-10 Buckeye Incubator Company Feed conveyor
US3191581A (en) * 1962-12-17 1965-06-29 James V Braham Feed lot conveyor system

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR802597A (fr) * 1935-05-23 1936-09-08 Rocca Ets Perfectionnements aux appareillages d'extraction par dissolvants et notamment aux appareillages utilisés dans l'industrie des matières grasses
US2232606A (en) * 1940-04-04 1941-02-18 Wilbur G Hudson Mass conveyer
GB762411A (en) * 1954-06-08 1956-11-28 John Dalglish Improvements relating to conveyors
US3003464A (en) * 1958-08-04 1961-10-10 Buckeye Incubator Company Feed conveyor
US3191581A (en) * 1962-12-17 1965-06-29 James V Braham Feed lot conveyor system

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0178739A2 (de) * 1984-10-16 1986-04-23 Teus Malestein Gerät zum Liefern von Futter an eine Vielzahl von Käfigen
EP0178739A3 (en) * 1984-10-16 1987-01-14 Teus Malestein Apparatus for supplying food to a plurality of cages
EP1859237B1 (de) * 2005-03-03 2013-12-04 Cabinplant International A/S Wägeanordnung
US8729410B2 (en) 2005-03-03 2014-05-20 Cabinplant International A/S Arrangement for conveying controlled portions of a product material to a combinational weighing system consisting of a transport screw with a quick release mechanism
NL2006424C2 (en) * 2011-03-18 2012-09-19 Roxell Nv A poultry trough feeding system with feeding-trough segment(s) having dry feed and fluid inlets.
EP2526763A2 (de) 2011-03-18 2012-11-28 Roxell N.V. Geflügeltrogfütterungssystem mit Füttertrogsegment(en) mit Trockenfutter- und Flüssigfuttereinlässen
EP2526763A3 (de) * 2011-03-18 2013-05-22 Roxell N.V. Geflügeltrogfütterungssystem mit Füttertrogsegment(en) mit Trockenfutter- und Flüssigfuttereinlässen
WO2015173170A1 (en) 2014-05-16 2015-11-19 Roxell Bvba Poultry feeding system having walls which delimit or extend through a feeding space at least partly provided with sharp-edged line-elevations
NL2012824B1 (en) * 2014-05-16 2016-03-02 Roxell Bvba Poultry trough feeding system having its conveying element and/or inner trough segment walls at least partly provided with an abrasive surface structure.
US10426141B2 (en) 2014-05-16 2019-10-01 Roxell Bvba Poultry feeding system having walls which delimit or extend through a feeding space at least partly provided with sharp-edged line-elevations

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DK154286C (da) 1989-04-03
IE820541L (en) 1982-09-11
GR75152B (de) 1984-07-13
DK154286B (da) 1988-10-31
PT74562A (en) 1982-04-01
EP0060009B1 (de) 1985-12-04
PT74562B (en) 1983-09-27
NL8101186A (nl) 1982-10-01
EP0060009B2 (de) 1993-06-23
ES510916A0 (es) 1983-06-16
DK88082A (da) 1982-09-12
IE52810B1 (en) 1988-03-16
ES8306983A1 (es) 1983-06-16

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